The World Land Trust (WLT) has made a donation from its Action Fund to help the Fundación ProAves save important habitat in Colombia for the rare Santa Marta Parakeet.
The funds were added to donations from the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and used to secure a property which will extend the El Dorado Reserve by 148 acres (60 hectares) before the April deadline set by the property owner.
“We have been negotiating to buy this property for about five years,” said Alonso Quevedo, Executive Director, ProAves, “but the effort was absolutely worth it.
"The property links two forested areas and will allow us to create more breeding and foraging habitat for the parakeet along the San Lorenzo ridge, an area that contains the largest known parakeet population.”
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